Job Description
Roles & responsibilities
The Senior – BOI Finance and Accounting Team is integral to applying analytical skills to drive financial strategy, enhance decision-making processes, and optimize operations. This role involves interpreting complex financial data to provide actionable insights and recommendations, ensuring alignment with the organization's strategic goals.
Key Responsibilities:
•Business Understanding:
•Acquire a thorough understanding of the supported business area.
•Support for Leadership Teams:
•Prepare management information (MI), and analysis to the Audit Centre of Excellence and Delivery Support Group.
•Undertake both regular and ad-hoc forecasting and budgeting activities.
•Financial Management:
•Take responsibility for revenue and contribute to forecast submissions, ensuring coordination of inputs and delivery of insightful analysis.
•Compile comprehensive supporting data and analysis to enhance decision-making processes.
•Lending and Borrowing Analysis:
•Coordinate lending and borrowing analysis, reporting, and insights for the capability.
•Report on business drivers.
•Coordinate insights from the Finance Business Partner (FBP) team.
•Capability-Wide Solutions and Reporting:
•Develop solutions and reporting to address capability-wide finance issues, such as hard close, liquidity targets suspense, and Work in Progress (WIP) sign-off.
Roles & responsibilities contd.
Process Improvement:
•Automation and Efficiency: Lead efforts to automate reporting processes and incorporate generative AI tools to enhance efficiency, standardization, and innovation in financial analysis.
•Skill Development in Analytics Platforms: Enhance proficiency in emerging data analytics platforms, adapting reports to improve efficiency and insight generation.
Team and Stakeholder Engagement:
•Stakeholder Management: Engage effectively with stakeholders, delivering analytical insights that align financial objectives with business strategies, including real-time support to stakeholders starting at 2 PM IST.
•Team Leadership: Manage the finance team by setting clear goals, conducting performance appraisals, and fostering a culture focused on continuous learning and analytical excellence.
•Training and Best Practices: Lead training sessions to develop analytical skills within the team, sharing best practices, including the use of generative AI, to enhance overall capabilities.
•Investment Evaluation: Analyze open accounts receivable, bad debts, and cash flow metrics to provide leadership with insights that support the firm’s liquidity.
Roles & responsibilities
•Collaborate with the Working Capital Controller team to support financial operations and achieve objectives across a range of business areas.
•Develop a comprehensive understanding of the business operations supported, actively learning about relevant finance processes to integrate them effectively into daily tasks.
•Acquire a thorough understanding of the business area being supported
•To drive, develop and maintain close links with Engagement Leaders and conduct monthly face to face meetings with partners to discuss all WIP and Debtor balances.
•Comprehensive follow-up of action items, such as time write off, billing action. This includes follow up of all debt collection discussions
•Assist in the execution of credit control framework to ensure debtors to be collected in a timely manner.
•Coordination and submission of monthly billing forecast estimates, ensuring that estimates are accurate, reflective of partner conversations and all pledged invoices materialise
•Promoting the use of the budgeting tool
•Managing Lock Up Days – to regularly review WIP and debtor lock up days for Engagement Leaders, to monitor trigger points of billing/ write offs, so ensuring early revenue action to maintain optimum working capital hygiene from a WIP perspective.
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•Develop a thorough understanding of the business area supported, proactively keeping abreast with what services it provides, its key clients, & significant contracts
•Build strong and trusted relationships with key stakeholders, principally engagement leaders and managers, and middle office where applicable
•Minimise lockup by reviewing unbilled revenue, validating recoverability and instigating the EL/EM/MO to act where billing action needs and/or should be taken
•Monitor debt and work closely with the EL/EM to drive timely collections. Escalate aged or disputed items in-line with the credit control framework, highlighting blockers for partner intervention
•Detect and escalate errors/anomalies impacting revenue e.g. caps, FP ETC issues. Coordinate remediation with shared services or central finance teams
•Act as the first line of support for operational finance queries relating to WIP, debtors, billing, revenue processes, and engagement hygiene. Assist ELs/EMs in understanding key working capital metrics and required actions
•Review engagement cost accruals, ensuring that there is no double-count with actual costs and/or overstated revenue due to a lack of accruing. Pursue action as may be required
•Monitor and pursue action on engagement-related operational matters that can have an impact on lockup and revenue recognition e.g. risk blockers, EL/EM leavers whose codes haven’t been transferred to another EL/EM, work packages without billing element. Similarly, promote hygiene across the portfolio by ensuring that completed projects are closed within the system
•Execute defined control activities, such as revenue reassignment and other controls within established finance processes. Ensure proper documentation and compliance per process governance
•Act as an escalation point for both the requestor and the finance operations team, in transaction execution processes e.g. stalled billing or approvals
•Escalate and work with Finance Business Partners (FBPs) to tackle identified significant and/or systematic lockup and commercial issues
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This role is for you if you havethe below
Work experience
•Professional certifications (e.g., CPA, ACCA) and advanced degrees (e.g., MBA) are highly desirable, especially those with a focus on UK finance and taxation
•Proven track record of managing transitions and integrating new roles effectively from UK Geo
•6+ years relevant experience which should be mix of Financial accounting, management accounting and FP&A.
•A minimum of 3 years’ Working Capital management experience. Professional services experience is preferred
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This role is for you if you havethe below
Work experience
•Understanding of financial reporting standards, particularly IFRS 15, fixed asset accounting, and intercompany accounting
•Proven track record in driving operational excellence and delivering exceptional customer service.
•Excellent leadership and people management skills, with the ability to inspire and motivate teams
•Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build relationships and influence stakeholders at all levels
•Experience with S/4HANA or any related SAP ERP system is a plus.
•Resilience and the ability to work effectively with multiple and demanding stakeholders.
•Strong problem-solving abilities.
Preferred technical & functional skills
•Excellent Communication Skills
•Proven experience in financial analysis, accounting, or related roles.
•Strong proficiency in MS Excel.
•Knowledge of Data Analytics tools
•Multitasking Skills
•Proactive attitude
•Well organised
•Able to prioritise and deal with a varied workload
•High attention to detail
•Good written and verbal communication skills
•Resilient and able to work with multiple and demanding stakeholders
•Problem solving abilities
•Numeracy literate – preference for a Maths ‘A’ level or equivalent qualification
Roles & responsibilities
•Collaborate with the Working Capital Controller team to support financial operations and achieve objectives across a range of business areas.
•Develop a comprehensive understanding of the business operations supported, actively learning about relevant finance processes to integrate them effectively into daily tasks.
•Acquire a thorough understanding of the business area being supported
•To drive, develop and maintain close links with Engagement Leaders and conduct monthly face to face meetings with partners to discuss all WIP and Debtor balances.
•Comprehensive follow-up of action items, such as time write off, billing action. This includes follow up of all debt collection discussions
•Assist in the execution of credit control framework to ensure debtors to be collected in a timely manner.
•Coordination and submission of monthly billing forecast estimates, ensuring that estimates are accurate, reflective of partner conversations and all pledged invoices materialise
•Promoting the use of the budgeting tool
•Managing Lock Up Days – to regularly review WIP and debtor lock up days for Engagement Leaders, to monitor trigger points of billing/ write offs, so ensuring early revenue action to maintain optimum working capital hygiene from a WIP perspective.
•
•Develop a thorough understanding of the business area supported, proactively keeping abreast with what services it provides, its key clients, & significant contracts
•Build strong and trusted relationships with key stakeholders, principally engagement leaders and managers, and middle office where applicable
•Minimise lockup by reviewing unbilled revenue, validating recoverability and instigating the EL/EM/MO to act where billing action needs and/or should be taken
•Monitor debt and work closely with the EL/EM to drive timely collections. Escalate aged or disputed items in-line with the credit control framework, highlighting blockers for partner intervention
•Detect and escalate errors/anomalies impacting revenue e.g. caps, FP ETC issues. Coordinate remediation with shared services or central finance teams
•Act as the first line of support for operational finance queries relating to WIP, debtors, billing, revenue processes, and engagement hygiene. Assist ELs/EMs in understanding key working capital metrics and required actions
•Review engagement cost accruals, ensuring that there is no double-count with actual costs and/or overstated revenue due to a lack of accruing. Pursue action as may be required
•Monitor and pursue action on engagement-related operational matters that can have an impact on lockup and revenue recognition e.g. risk blockers, EL/EM leavers whose codes haven’t been transferred to another EL/EM, work packages without billing element. Similarly, promote hygiene across the portfolio by ensuring that completed projects are closed within the system
•Execute defined control activities, such as revenue reassignment and other controls within established finance processes. Ensure proper documentation and compliance per process governance
•Act as an escalation point for both the requestor and the finance operations team, in transaction execution processes e.g. stalled billing or approvals
•Escalate and work with Finance Business Partners (FBPs) to tackle identified significant and/or systematic lockup and commercial issues
•·
This role is for you if you havethe below
Work experience
•Professional certifications (e.g., CPA, ACCA) and advanced degrees (e.g., MBA) are highly desirable, especially those with a focus on UK finance and taxation
•Proven track record of managing transitions and integrating new roles effectively from UK Geo
•6+ years relevant experience which should be mix of Financial accounting, management accounting and FP&A.
•A minimum of 3 years’ Working Capital management experience. Professional services experience is preferred
·
This role is for you if you havethe below
Work experience
•Understanding of financial reporting standards, particularly IFRS 15, fixed asset accounting, and intercompany accounting
•Proven track record in driving operational excellence and delivering exceptional customer service.
•Excellent leadership and people management skills, with the ability to inspire and motivate teams
•Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build relationships and influence stakeholders at all levels
•Experience with S/4HANA or any related SAP ERP system is a plus.
•Resilience and the ability to work effectively with multiple and demanding stakeholders.
•Strong problem-solving abilities.
Preferred technical & functional skills
•Excellent Communication Skills
•Proven experience in financial analysis, accounting, or related roles.
•Strong proficiency in MS Excel.
•Knowledge of Data Analytics tools
•Multitasking Skills
•Proactive attitude
•Well organised
•Able to prioritise and deal with a varied workload
•High attention to detail
•Good written and verbal communication skills
•Resilient and able to work with multiple and demanding stakeholders
•Problem solving abilities
•Numeracy literate – preference for a Maths ‘A’ level or equivalent qualification
